thank fucking god for the substance
beauty can, and should, only ever be bought.
in richard siken’s poem landscape with a blur of conquerors he says “make him handsome and you’re a fascist. make him ugly and you’re saying nothing new.”
beauty is conflated with the beauty industry. america is never talking about one or the other. i don’t think america believes in beauty (or the individual, for that matter). it is a purchasable item, …